How does cpanel website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web space hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A complete lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...